Notes on a Nervous Planet ~ Matt Haig ☆ Review
Good morning!
It’s been about a year now that i’ve picked up it’s “sibling’s book”, Reasons to Stay Alive [My review]; and thought it was about time I hop onto Notes on a Nervous Planet. Shifting from the question “Why should I stay alive”, to another one “How to Live in a mad world without becoming mad ourselves” (p.8)
4 / 5 stars
What I love so much about both books, is that it’s not only a block of text from cover to cover in an objective form ; Thoses really feels just like Haig’s is speaking to us, with a collection of facts, quotes, conversations (reals or imagines), amongs many other things. It makes it so easy for my brain to read, as it’s devided in little sections of maybe 5 or 10 pages maximum.
While I did prefer the perspective of one’s reason to live from the first one instead of the living with the society of this one; Haig’s researches still made me realize some things aswell as wrote some relatables that made me just go “!!!” and need to show that page to everybody ahah — Thoses mostly were about Hapiness in general, or even facts that we all need to remember about ourselves, the internet or life.
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Matt Haig quickly became one of my go-to authors. I love his non-fiction and he details some of the stuff that goes on in my brain in this one- but I especially loved the Humans. Beautiful book!
Ah, another one I gotta pick up! I can def see why he’d be your go-to author — such a relief to have someone describe what goes in your head so well.
That quote is so true!! Change is just as much about how we envision our future as escaping our present. I love when self help books are divided into smaller sections too. Then I can think deep about the individual topics.
I found so many pages where I just needed to take a picture to show people!! Plenty of good reminders.